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Tag Greason only wants what AFP wants. Not what his constituents want. Not what the Chamber of Commerce wants.

Yesterday, Tag Greason followed his Republican majority in the General Assembly and voted “No” on accepting money to extend health-care for 400,000 Virginians. This is money that would HELP CLOSE our budget shortfall, because it would go to VIRGINIA businesses: hospitals; doctors; pharmacies; medical supply companies. It is money that could have kept people from losing their homes, money that could have kept food on their children’s tables. And, as you probably already know, this is also money WE’VE ALREADY PAID as U.S. citizens.

John Boehner getting ready to sue President Obama for delaying the start of something the House has voted over 40 times to end completely.

The common theme? It isn’t just about fiscal irresponsibility. It isn’t just about wasteful spending. Tag Greason is beholden to the Tea Party. What he cares about is denying couples the freedom to marry and preventing access to healthcare.

That is not what voters in Algonkian, Ashburn, Broadlands, Lansdowne, Leesburg, and Sterling want from their Delegate. What I’ve heard from you, what I believe myself, is that we want our Commonwealth to be a place where all can succeed. A place that allows everyone to have the same opportunities to find happiness. A place where families are not one illness away from bankruptcy.

Last year, we came very close to replacing Tag Greason and with your help we can win this time. I have set an ambitious goal for the end of the year and I’m already more than half-way there! We believe that getting started early this time will make all the difference. Because of that, it would mean so much to me if you could support my campaign today with a contribution of $1000, $500, $250, $101, or any amount you feel comfortable with.

I know that with your early help, we can win next year and send a message that compassion and common sense are what we want from government.

Monday, we went to the NoVA Labor picnic. So much fun, and so many friends! Talking with Dan Duncan was particularly nice. And this morning was the DemBiz breafast with Norm Ornstein! What a great event! Plus door-knocking and phone banking!

By now you know that the Supreme Court decided that Hobby Lobby can refuse to give women health-care required by the Affordable Care Act. What not everyone knows, however, is that it was the legislature that made this decision possible when it passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (the “RFRA”). Now, this is important, for the following reason: The Hobby Lobby case was not decided on the grounds of anyone’s First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion. Here’s the last paragraph of the court’s written opinion:

The contraceptive mandate, as applied to closely held corporations, violates RFRA. Our decision on that statutory question makes it unnecessary to reach the First Amendment claim…

That’s right. It wasn’t the constitution that gave Hobby Lobby the right to use its religious beliefs to deny care to women, it was a statute. Statutes, as you know, are written by legislators. They can be written by them, and they can be repealed by them. That’s why it is so very important to our personal liberties, including our freedom of choice, to elect legislators who will write statutes our courts can enforce to preserve our freedoms, not take them away.

Our freedom of religion is one of the bedrock principles of American liberty. So is our freedom to make our own choices in the privacy of our own lives, not having them made instead by corporations or our employers. As a legislator, I will find the path that protects those freedoms together, drafting and supporting laws that leave our most personal freedoms intact, alongside laws that will continue to leave it up to us how, or even if, we will worship the Creator.

Hobby Lobby was not a victory for the constitution. As the court said itself, the constitution did not decide the case. A statute did, which means a legislature did.

Please help me do what we almost did last time. Please help me become a voice in the Virginia legislature for the defense of your personal liberty, the very same liberty that has been and continues to be under attack by an anti-person, anti-healthcare majority. We can fight back. Please help me in that fight by donating to my campaign. The next election is just over a year away, but the fight for our freedom needs us now, today, more than ever.

The best part was seeing some of my favorite people including Dr. Marilyn Foust (bottom center of the picture below), Jennifer Wexton, Jennifer Boysko, and Kathleen Murphy (next to me in the magenta jacket).

Ashburn, VA- Elizabeth Miller is announcing her intention to once again challenge Delegate Tag Greason. Recent comments and actions from Delegate Greason have moved her make this decision early in the process.

“Recent actions from Delegate Greason have shown disrespect to his constituents. From his outrageous letter to a senior citizen in the district who supports Medicaid expansion (telling her ‘you are the problem’), to his childish stunts in Richmond (like refusing to shave and posting signs on the Senate chamber doors), to his insults aimed at colleagues and voters at his public appearances, he has made it clear that he is more interested in acting like a typical Washington-style politician, than trying to solve problems for Loudoun County,” Miller said today. “Ashburn, Broadlands, and Lansdowne deserve a delegate who will be responsive to their needs, respectful of their input, and representative of their interests. Instead, we have a man who is driven entirely by politics, voting with the Tea Party, utterly uninterested in what his people want.”

Miller first challenged Greason in 2013, winning just under 49% of the vote, despite being heavily outspentand making a late entry into the race. “Voters of the 32nd district have been asking me, ‘Will you run again in 2015?’” she said. “After what we’ve seen from Mr. Greason this year, I don’t think I can wait that long. I am running as of today.”

Miller runs a small business with her husband, has a twelve-year-old son in the Loudoun public schools, and is active within the community.